Rivers Family History

 

Charles Rivers Sr 1702-1772 (children: Charles Rivers Jr 1730-, John Rivers 1735-1790)
 

John Rivers 1735-1790 SC M: Mary Fort 1748-1802 
 

   1~William Rivers 1765-1803
   2~Francis Rivers 1766-

   3~Susannah Rivers 1767-

   4~Sarah Rivers 1768-1794

   6~Elijah Rivers 1769-1785

   5~John R Rivers 1768-1823 M: Mary Ann Hardy 1770-1846

1~William Thomas Rivers 1785-1849 M: 1839 Mary Milligan 1778-1857

1~William Greene Rivers 1806-1869 M1: 1830 Barbara Burkhalter Hutchinson M2: 1852 Martha Longino

1~Nicholas James Rivers, C.S.A.
2~Mary Ann Rivers
3~Thomas Nathaniel Rivers 1834-1888 M: Martha A Beard
4~Martha Elmira Rivers 1836-1897 M: Samuel J. Hunt
5~George Washington Rivers M: Ascinith Hall
6~Nathaniel H. Harris
7~Ann "Annie" Elizabeth Rivers 1841-1906 M: George Richard Booker, C.S.A.
8~Indiana "Frances" Rivers 1844-1917 M: James Benjamin Longino, C.S.A. 
9~Harriet A. Rivers 1845-1931 M: Jasper M. Simmons
10~Laura Rivers 1847-1923 M: Henry Franklin Johnson
11~William Marcus Rivers

12~James Thomas Rivers 

13~John Floyd Rivers

2~Harriett Rivers 1808-1868 M: Michael H McGahee 1804-1884

1~Nancy H. McGahee 1832–1906 M: Gilbert F McNair 1828-1884

2~William Green McGahee 1837–1911 M1:  Emily A Holley B: unknown D: 1857 M2: Harriet Louisa Young 1842–1913.

1~Infant McGahee 1857-1857

3~John Michael McGahee 1838–1907 M: 1857 Fannie A Fuller 1840-1919

1~Frances Valdosta McGahee 1862–1942

4~Samuel M. McGahee 1842–1865 Enlisted 1 May 1862 as a private with the 38th Georgia Infantry Regiment, CSA, wounded at Fredericksburg VA 13 December 1862, captured at Spotsylvania VA 19 May 1864, Died of general debility at Elmira NY 4 May 1865, buried at Woodlawn National Cemetery, Elmira NY, Grave #2759.

5~Bud Rivers McGahee 1848–1919 M1: 1865 Ellen Baggett B:  D: 1880s M2: 1888 Mollie Gay 1869-1944

6~Jordan McGahee 1854–1953 M: 1890 Mary Davis 1871-1906

1~Lva McGahee 1891-1964 M: 1907 George Harmon Shell 1882-1953
2~William Mcgahee 1892-1979 M:
3~Walter Mcgahee 1893-1933
4~Annie Mcgahee 1894-
5~Idel Mcgahee 1895-
6~Iradella McGahee 1896-

7~Samuel McGahee 1896–1966 M: Dillie K Oliphanmt 1901-1938

8~Estelle McGahee 1897-
9~Eliza C McGahee 1899-
10~Carrie Mcgahee 1903-

11~Louise McGahee 1904–1923

3~Susannah "Susan" Rivers 1811-1888 M: 1832 Zachariah Rabun 1811-1864

1~Isabella Marjorie Rabun 1833-1838

2~Nancy Ann Elizabeth Rabun 1836-1838

3~Thomas Robert Rabun 1838-1910

4~Mary Rabun Phillips 1839-
5~Pvt William Green Rabun 1843-1926

6~Hillman Madison Rabun 1848-1926

7~Wesley Rhoan Rabun 1851-1898

8~George Washington Rabun 1855-1856

4~Thomas Jefferson Rivers 1812-1853 M: Nancy McGahee 1808-

5~John Floyd Rivers 1814-1898 M: 1839 Fereby Howard

1~Mary Savannah Rivers Barton 1847–1924

2~Thomas William Rivers 1853–1912

3~Albert Preston Rivers 1855–1916

6~Francis M. Rivers 1816-1829

7~Jane Rivers 1820- M: ~ McCrakin B:  D:

2~James Rivers 1790-1830 M: Elizabeth Dial 1793-1827
            1~Burrell Green Rivers 1831-1911
3~Robert Hunt Rivers 1810-1875 M: Martha Jackson 1810-

1~Sarah Adline Rivers Brown 1835–1920

2~John H Rivers 1839–1915

3~Nathaniel A Rivers 1830-1864

4~Ann Eliza Rivers 1818-1874 M: William J Harwell 1813-1896
5~Thomas A. Rivers 1815-1889 see below line
6~John Floyd Rivers 1818-1874
7~William M Rivers 1811-1885
8~Jane T Rivers 1822-1890
9~Leonora Rivers      

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5~Thomas A. Rivers B: 1815 D: 1889 M: Mary Ann Milton B: 1830 D: 1914, d/o Benjamin Milton 1799-1874 & Margaret Redding 1800-1850.. In the 1870 U.S. Census, of Bradford County, Florida, Thomas Rivers is listed as 53 b. in Georgia, his wife Mary is 35, and sons Frank 19, William 15, and James 9. In the 1880 U.S. Census he still lives in Lake Butler, Bradford, Florida and is a farmer. He has his wife Mary with him and 2 sons: James 20, and Robert 12.

 
2~William C. Rivers B: 03/14/1854 D: 09/04/1884 M: Martha Kite 1857-1928

3~ James Milton Rivers 1861-1958 M: 1882 Isabella M Marion Loadholtz

4~Robert Rivers 1868-1910 M: 1888 Sarah Johnson 1875
 

5~William Thomas Rivers B: 01/26/1871 D: 06/09/1876 (not sure if son of Francis & Lou).
 

1~Francis "Frank" Marion Rivers B: 01/1851 GA D 1930 FL Burial: Dekle Cemetery, Union Cty, FL M1: Lucinda Lou Prevatt B: 09/22/1852 Providence, FL D: 10/11/1885 Lake Butler. M2: 1886 Mary Elizabeth Prevatt, B: 02/25/1861 Clay County, Florida  D: 02/16/1935 Union County, Florida  Burial: Dekle Cemetery, Union County, FL. d/o Jonathan Knight Prevatt (1820-1883) and Sarah Saphari Providece (1829-1905).  In 1880 he started a blacksmith and plow shop at the present day (2015) site of 85 East Main in Lake Butler. His son Charles F. bought the business in the 1920s, continuing it as a plow and hardware company. Grandson Wilson S. Rivers, Sr. bought it in 1947, changing it into a hardware and furniture company. The original buildings were destroyed by fire during a storm in 1985. On Aug 28, 1906 Frank received U. S. Patent #829802 for his invention of the "F. M. Rivers Cultivating Plow" aka "double stock" plow, which was used widely throughout Florida and adjoining states. 

 

01~William Thomas Rivers B: 01/26/1871 D: 06/09/1876 (not sure if son of Francis & Lou).

1~Lucinda Rivers B: 1873 Lake Butler FL

2~Wiley Lee Rivers Sr B: 09/08/1877 D: 07/07/1970 M: Pansy Johnson 1880-1923 d/o Jesse Green Johnson 1844–1925 & Ruth Frisbee 1841–1897. M2: 1926 Minnie Agnes Mills 1898-1972, d/o William Edward "Ed" Mills 1854–1928 & Mary Catherine Cockcroft 1857–1939.

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Pansy Johnson                         Minnie Agnes Mills Rivers far right

1~William Cornelius Rivers Sr B: 08/03/1900 Bradford County, FL D: 1982 M: 1922 Evelyn Denmark B: 10/01/1903 Lawtey, FL D: 05/26/1984 in Jacksonville, FL: Riverside Memorial Park, Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida

1~Francis Allen Rivers 1924-1924

2~William Cornelius Rivers Jr  B: 1925 D: 1997 M: Jeanette Elizabeth Hood 1926–2010

3~Lenore Gwendolyn Rivers B: 10/01/1927 D: 06/09/2022 M1: Thorton Oliver M2: Halle Adams

1~Julie Oliver

2~Charles Oliver
 

4~Kenneth Eugene Rivers Sr B: 12/03/1930 D: 04/27/2002 M:

5~Joyce Elaine Rivers 1932-2022 M: Robert Charles Harllee 1932-2006, Chaplain Lt. Col., Ret., U.S. Army

6~Barbara Ann Rivers B: 1936 D: 1988 M: Halle Bailey Townsend 1933-2013

7~Gene Rivers B:    D:       M:

2~Maye Rivers 1900–1972 M: 1925 Albert E Bobbett 1893-1961
 

1~Betty Jo Bobbett 1926–1987 M : 1957 James Marvin Owen 1928-2017

1~John Stephen Owen 1960–1960
 

2~Edward Rivers Bobbett 1928–2002 Tampa, FL M: 1949 Norma Jeanne Bobbett
 

3~Alberta Mae Bobbett  1934- M: 1950 Morgan Lee Taylor 1912-1990
 

3~Wiley Lee Rivers Jr 1902-1989 M: 1928 Lorena Evers 1910-1975
 

4~Jeanette Rivers 1904–1984
 

5~Eva Rivers 1906-1987 M: Steiner Sexton 1900-1945
 

6~Lorena E Rivers 1910–2001 M: Charles Shafter Sinks Sr 1900-1979
 

1~Charles Shafter Sinks Jr. 1939–1997 M: 1959 Judith Ann Elkins M2: 1974 Susan Patricia Cox 

7~Nellie Rivers 1911-1991 M: 1937 Wiley Josiah Coulter 1904-1978

8~Gwendolyn Rivers 1914-

9~Gertrude Elizabeth Rivers 1919-2003 M: James Wendell Nolan 1919-2006, s/o Newell C Nolan 1893–1958 & Mary E Nixon 1892–1981.

3~Charlie Francis Rivers, Sr   B: 01/09/1880 Lake Butler, FL D: 03/13/1970 Dekle Cemetery, Union County, FL M: 1906 Mallie Futch B: 01/21/1882 D: 07/03/1914 Dekle Cemetery, Union County, FL. M2: Annie Barbara Rimes B: 09/16/1888 Worthington Springs, FL D: 07/16/1914 Dekle Cemetery, Union County, FL

1~Genevieve Rivers B: 1908 D: 2009 M: Harry Shine Woodruff 1906-2000

1~Genevieve Woodruff 1936–1936

2~Charles Silas Rivers Jr B: 1907 D: 1998   M: Mary Kay B:  D:  Maj US Army WW II

3~Marion Rivers B: 1910  D:   M: Arthur Neil

4~Eleanor Rivers B: 11/22/1911 Lake Butler, FL D: 07/16/1914 Dekle Cemetery, Union County, FL
 

01~Lou Ella Rivers B: 10/22/1918 Lake Butler, FL D: 08/07/2002 Dowling Park, Suwannee Cty, FL: Dekle Cemetery, Union Cty, FL

02~Esther Salmon Rivers B: 09/08/1920 Lake Butler D: 04/19/2018 NC M: 1945 CDR Thomas Lane Mallonee, Sr, Commander US Navy WWII. B: 07/10/1918 D: 12/30/1997 Montmorenci United Methodist Church Cemetery, Candler, Buncombe County, NC. Esther attended Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida and the Compton Business College in Jacksonville, Florida. 

    

1~Thomas Lane Mallonee, Jr B: 10/15/1949 D: M: Patsy Green International Legal Honor Society of Phi Delta Phi.

1~Chris Mallonee B: 09/26/1975 D:
2~Chuck Mallonee
 

2~Charles William Mallonee M: Teresa

03~Wilson Samuel Rivers, Sr B: 07/22/1922 D: 11/29/2011 M: Sophia Sue Warenda B: 09/26/1922 D: 12/10/2018, d/o Louis and Stephania (Halibozek) Warenda. F.M. Rivers founded the Rivers Hardware Store in Lake Butler during this early period, about 1880 and continued in operation until it burned in 1985. Rivers attained fame by manufacturing his own invention, the Rivers "double stock" plow, which was popularly used all over Florida and the South. The business was passed on to C.F. Rivers and then to Wilson Rivers.  During those years, he was a volunteer fireman and member of the city council. In his boyhood years, Wilson would work in his father's grist mill (grits) and blacksmith shop. WWII ended while he was serving in the Philippines as 1st Lieutenant, Infantry Division, and he was re-assigned as hospital administrator, first at station hospital on Letey Island and then in the same capacity at Clark Field, Luzon, north of Manila. There, he met his wife, Sophia (Sue) Warenda, a nurse from Middletown, CT, who was also serving as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Nursing Corp. Wilson purchased his dads farm in 1947, and owned nearly half the county up into Worthington Springs, and sold all but 200 of the 2,300 acres in 2011. Wilson & Sue moved over to Gainesville, FL. 

Wilson & Sue 

 

  Wilson & Sue Rivers & Phillis Mixon 2008

1~Constance Elaine Rivers B: 08/27/1947 D 07/07/2019 M: Richard F. Anderson B:04/23/1945 D:
2~Wilson Samuel Rivers, Jr  B: 07/06/1950 D: M: Joy Bruce B: 07/27/2954 D: 

3~Joseph Scott Rivers B: 05/23/1953 D: M: Kathleen Kidd B: 04/10/1956 

4~Diane Elizabeth Rivers B: 04/05/1955 D: M: Frid S. Stribling B: 01/25/1956 D:

04~Naome Ann Rivers B: 07/24/1924 Lake Butler, FL D: 09/28/2000 M: Paul Richard Gill, Sr B: 06/06/1917 D: 03/24/2001

1~Paul Richard Gill, Jr B: 10/14/1948

2~Barbara Lou Gill B: 08/12/1951

4~Gwendolyn Rivers B: 01/1881 FL D: 1934 Baker Cty, FL  Woodlawn Cemetery, Macclenny, Baker Cty, FL  M: Tate Powell Sr 10/04/1879 NC D: 04/18/1967 Woodlawn Cemetery, Macclenny, Baker Cty, FL

1~Tate Powell Jr B: 03/17/1906 Baker Cty, FL D: 07/07/1989 Woodlawn Cemtery, Macclenny, Baker Cty, FL M: Lois Sellers B: 07/06/1908 D: 09/05/1995 Woodlawn Cemetery, Macclenny, Baker Cty, FL. D/o Samuel James

Sellers 1871–1919 & Amanda Lee Ola Lynch, 1874-1951.
 

1~Ray Powell
2~Wanda Powell Horn
 

2~Lucy Powell B: 07/23/1908 D: 04/12/1909 Woodlawn Cemetery, Macclenny, Baker County, FL 

 
5~Onie Rivers B: 09/22/1887 D: 01/14/1918 Dekle Cemetery, FL M: P. A. Barker
 

6~Robert Fulton Rivers B: 1892 D: 1965 M: 1914 Elva Lee Douglas B: 1892 D: 1958 d/o General John Douglas 1879-1937 & Sarah Elizabeth Dukes 1875-1956
 

1~Robbie Rivers 1916-1996
2~Kenneth Rivers 1924-1993
3~Mary Eileen Rivers 1920-1983
 

7~Pvt Percy C. Rivers B: 1894 D: 1931 M: 1921 Ruby Lenoa Bryant B: 09/18/1898 D: 1980. Mus 2nd Class, HDQS Co, 116th FA, Co A 1st Sep BN, Fla. Infantry national Guard- WWI.

1~Hollis Rivers 1922- Twin brother of Wallace

2~Wallace P Rivers 1922-2019 M1: 1943 Erestine Faysouix Balentine 1921-1997.  M2: Madelyn Joyce Roper 1929-2021. He joined the U.S. Navy as a 19-year old high school senior - with the reluctant permission of his mother since he was underage shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He served honorably in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters, aboard both PC (Patrol Coastal) 544 and Destroyer Escort (DE-162) USS Levy, achieving the rank of Quartermaster First Class. He was a gifted navigator, ship’s photographer, and for the last year before his discharge in 1945, taught celestial navigation at the U.S. Naval Training Center, Miami, Florida.

1~David Rivers

2~Diane Rivers

3~Darlene Rivers

3~Martha Frances Rivers 1926-2010 M: 1950 Roy David Stripling Jr 1924-1999 s/o Roy David Stripling Sr 1895–1960 & Ruth Jane Harrison 1897–1991.

   Roy David Stripling Jr
 

8~Sarah Bell Rivers B: 1895 D: 1928 M: Hilton. Daughter of Francis and Mary Rivers
 

9~Leeman Odom Rivers B: 05/10/1899 D: 08/13/1988 M: 1923 Sarah 'Sally' Lou Mildred Robarts B: 07/14/1905 D: 05/27/1993, Lake Butler, FL. Lived in Titusville, Florida. 

 

1~Robert Daniel Leeman Rivers B: 01/19/1931 D: M: Bettye Jo Fort B: 02/17/1933 D:

1~Daniel J. Rivers B: 02/24/1955 D: M: Heidi DeWald B: 08/14/1956 D:
2~Thomas W. Rivers B: 02/21/1957 D: M:
3~Elizabeth Diane Rivers B: 12/27/1958 D: M:

2~Joseph Williams Rivers B: 10/03/1933 M: Elizabeth Joye White B: 09/20/1935 D:

1~Joseph Williams Rivers B: 08/30/1960 D:
2~Randall Benton Rivers B: 09/09/1964 D: Winter Park, FL
3~Russell Mark Rivers B: 09/09/1964 D:

3~Susie Cornelia Rivers B: 07/02/1935 D: 2014 M: James Earl Whitehead B: 06/06/1934 D: 

1~Janet Elaine Whitehead B: 07/25/1955 D: M: Richard W. McCllum B: 11/16/1952 D: 04/12/2016
2~Timothy Earl Whitehead B: 03/29/1958 D: M:
3~Pamela Sue Whitehead B: 02/21/1964 D: M:

10~Russell Aura Rivers 1903-1999 M: John Kirby Langford 1903-1991, s/o John N.                   Langford 1871-1912 and Alice E. Wainwright Langford 1876-1969.

1~John Kirby Langford II 1929-2007 Swift Creek Cemetery, Lake Butler, FL.                   M: Patricia Plouffe

1~John W. Langford

2~Kenneth Langford

3~Karen Langford Baden

4~Sandra Langford Markus

5~Terry Langford Pearson 

6~Kim Langford